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Manager, Media Technology - Flashtalking

Digitas is a highly-caffeinated playground where brilliant minds come together to make bold, award-winning advertising. We use data-driven insights to guide our work, but we also believe in a healthy dose of spirited storytelling. Paving the way for this is our amazing Digital Studio, dedicated to transforming the marketing landscape. Right now, we’re looking for a whip smart Manager to help lead the charge. Up for it? Read on.

What you’ll do:

You’ll lead digital production-focused projects through to execution, implementing effective team approaches and develop technology tactics that improve the process.

Day to day, your responsibilities will include:

• Prioritizing and communicating daily/weekly work requests and assigning appropriate Studio resources based on project scopes for dynamic creative, OLA, business decks, etc.
• Client and cross-agency communication (written and verbal) of status of work requests
• Tracking Digital Studio resources (including offshore) based on availability and skill sets
• Leading weekly account team status meetings to review projects and participating in daily status meetings with other Digital Studio teams to assess cross-office resource availability (on and offshore)
• Owner of overall campaign process and governance
• Overseeing the production workflow process, solving for conflicts as they arise
• Keeping pulse on emerging digital production technologies focused mainly on dynamic creative
  Supporting internal teams and partners in the delivery of solutions, insights and recommendations
• Developing direct reports through thoughtful, timely performance reviews and development plans
• Review the team’s work and provide directions to elevate the design and ensure deliverables match the original request such as reviewing and constructing data/matrix inputs against overall strategy needs from clients and cross-agency teams to ensure proper measurement and execution outputs
• Identifying process inefficiencies and ways to improve operations workflow
• Committing to evolving the creative practice and bringing in outside inspiration whenever possible
• Managing your time efficiently to balance with multiple simultaneous projects
• Handling multiple campaigns at any one time and meeting tight deadlines
• Troubleshoot dynamic creative (Flashtalking) and track issues that may arise throughout the process

We’re looking for a talented Manager who’s also a delight to work with, which usually includes:

• A four-year degree and training in creative software tools such as Adobe CC
• 5 to 7 years of experience supporting digital projects involving current and merging front-end technologies (emphasis in online advertising [OLA & OLV]), and 1 to 3 years of experience managing technical or creative teams (preferably at a creative/digital agency)
• Strong understanding of business and technical processes to enable smart technology solutions
• Willingness to travel as needed – you’re open to new places, new faces and new ideas
• Experience managing the execution of HTML, online advertising, and other creatively driven technology projects
• Experience with Flashtalking platform for Dynamic Creative
• Solid understanding of how dynamic creative (e.g. OLA, OLV, CRM, sites) are built
• Strong collaboration, flexibility and ability operate effectively – even in ambiguous circumstances
• Ability to accurately assess team/resource availability and match skill sets for projects
• Skill in breaking down larger efforts into digestible tasks for other team members
• Client facing experience/Client Management
• Proven customer service experience, with excellent communication skills (verbal and written) both internally and externally.
• Understanding of the Digital Media ecosystem

Got what it takes? We’d love to hear from you!

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.